New neighbourhoods and major urban extensions provide excellent opportunities to integrate facilities for sustainable waste management. This should be recognised at the planning stage.Tags:waste, neighbourhoods, buildings and spaces

Green roofs and building facades can be built on new buildings and retrofitted on existing ones, especially in urban areas where there are few other opportunities for adding green infrastructure.Tags:green infrastructure, buildings and spaces

Display energy certificates show that a building's energy performance rarely matches the design aspirations. Post-occupancy monitoring and feedback is essential to understand how to improve this.Tags:energy, buildings and spaces

At the city scale clear aspirations are required for the management of waste for construction projects. This can form part of overarching strategies for all waste through planning documents or corporate targets.Tags:waste, cities and towns, buildings and spaces